I thought this was kind of a genius arrangement. Everything you need for a pop song but cut back to the absolute minimum.
I over de-essed the vocals, and there's a crackle in the backing vocals at the end, I'll go back and fix them at some point if I have time. Other than that I'm pretty happy how it came out, even though the balances are a bit different to the library mix. The hi-hats jumping up and down in volume with the bus compression kinda did my head in, but maybe it's a genre-specific effect? I don't know. I mixed this like hip-hop meets punk, because that's how the music hit me.
I over de-essed the vocals, and there's a crackle in the backing vocals at the end, I'll go back and fix them at some point if I have time. Other than that I'm pretty happy how it came out, even though the balances are a bit different to the library mix. The hi-hats jumping up and down in volume with the bus compression kinda did my head in, but maybe it's a genre-specific effect? I don't know. I mixed this like hip-hop meets punk, because that's how the music hit me.